From AE admins’ side of the world, May signifies awesome provincial festivals (translation: tons of food and booze) and Santacruzans. It boggled my mind, upon surfing the net I often view this phrase: “Cinco de Mayo”. I’ve been an active online individual for years and yet, this is the first time I’ve taken notice of this phrase. So I did some Google research and was directed to this:

Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “fifth of May”) is a celebration held on May 5. It is celebrated nationwide in the United States and regionally in Mexico, primarily in the state of Puebla, where the holiday is called El Día de la Batalla de Puebla (English: The Day of the Battle of Puebla). The date is observed in the United States as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride, and to commemorate the cause of freedom and democracy during the first years of the American Civil War. In the state of Puebla, the date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. Contrary to widespread popular belief, Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day—the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico—which is actually celebrated on September 16.
~ Source: Wikipedia

Aaah, so it is an important day of freedom, similar to Independence Day. It is a special day of commemmoration on human’s sacrifices from history, to regain a sense of balance to live together in this crazy world. A special day indeed, to celebrate the past, and for current and future generations to remember.

It is a festive month and what better way to commemorate happiness but with some manga releases to uplift any down spirits! Be happy people! Life is short!

Before anything else, here are a few shoutouts for everyone:

• Looking for Japanese to English translators for some of our shoujo romance series and also our shounen ai series. Apply~
• Looking for Editors: experienced and even those willing to be trained~ Apply~
• Looking for Manga and magazine scanners~ Suggestions on new titles are welcome~ Please let us know~
• We currently need donations to buy and scan the latest volumes of our titles. Please consider helping out. Every little bit helps~ Thank you~

Before you donning your festive hats, you can view what releases we have here:

• Ludwig Gensoukyoku – A one-shot and extra from one of our all-time favorite series, Ludwig Kakumei! Rejoice is the Prince Lui love and sadism!
• Shounen Dolls chapter 14 – Meiji era bishies!
• Akuma no Puzzle chapter 4 – And we have another completed series! *stamps it*
• Yumemiru Koto chapter 4 – This is such a sexy series… XD
• Sora Log chapter 14 – Bishie wars!!!
• Xia Ke Xing chapter 4 – Is it just me, or are there a lot of “fours” on this week’s chapters…?
• Kaizoku to Ningyo chapter 5 – YES! We broke the curse of the “four” chapters on cinco de mayo! XD The link to chapter 5 has now been fixed~

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Greetings from Aerandria’s resident evil overlord and horror translator, Mari.

The good old AE site is back and you find me lounging on a pile of bearskins and supervising my slightly disoriented, bruised and half-drowned penguins working double-time on new releases.

But maybe you wonder why the bearskin on top is with a pirate’s hat and an eye-patch?

Then let me tell you the story of a fearless, but undignified one-eyed bear pirate with bad drinking manners who invaded the sacred home of the cute, harmless and always busy AE penguins. This bad, bad bear overtook their site, enslaved some of them and forced the rest to walk the plank, usurped their fans and even stole their manga… But that wasn’t enough for him, oh, no. Drunk with power and non-alcoholic beer, he made one fatal mistake – instead of hoarding his gains and leaving, he stayed and dug deeply and greedily into the dark, mysterious underground mazes of Aerandria, hoping to find even more manga goodness, not heeding the rumors of a dark, all-powerful ancient evil sleeping somewhere in the depths, one that terrifies even its own people, the penguins. And thus, he stumbled upon… ME.

Imagine my heart-felt dejection upon awakening when I crawled out of the depths to find my penguins hanging from the coconut trees, tied up like squishy salami, their cute capital Penguinville brought down to smoking ruins! I thought I had taught them better. I thought I had trained them to withstand even rabid smut fangirls and yet… *sadly shakes head*

The skies darkened with my fury and thunder rolled over the heads of the doomed bear pirates, while I stretched out my giant black wings, together with my endless arsenal of curses, voodoo, instruments of torture, poison princesses and rock-heavy Japanese dictionaries…

But let us skip the gory details, much as I like them. Suffice it to say, my penguins were reminded of my wrath, hence the amazing speed of the new releases, the enemy was defeated and the website back to its normal white cuteness and proper grammar!

Also, because of the damage to the ship and goods that the One-Eyed Bear inflicted on our unsuspecting penguin crew, repair funds are needed so please consider helping us out with our dilemma! Every bit counts! Our cute penguins will do a dance number for you with joy! XD

Before anything else, here are a few shoutouts for everyone:

• Looking for Japanese to English translators for some of our shoujo romance series and also our shounen ai series. Apply~
• Looking for Editors: experienced and even those willing to be trained~ Apply~
• Looking for Manga and magazine scanners~ Suggestions on new titles are welcome~ Please let us know~

You can enjoy a cup of delicately brewed tea and proper literary grammar with me while flipping through these series:

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